The Life of a Serverless Microservice on AWS

In this post, I will demonstrate how you can develop, test, deploy and operate a production ready Serverless Microservice using the AWS ecosystem. The combination of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway allows us to operate a REST endpoint without the need of any virtual machines. We will use Amazon DynamoDB as our database, Amazon CloudWatch for metrics and logs, and AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodePipeline as our delivery pipeline. In the end, you know how to wire together a bunch of AWS services to run a system in production. This post is a summary of my talk The Life of a Serverless Microservice on AWSwhich I gave at DevOpsCon 2016 in Berlin.